| Course Description |
How do we study smarter and not harder? How can we learn better from mistakes?
How does stress affect our attention, learning, and memory? Is scrolling through TikTok
on our phones while watching a video recording of a lecture a good thing? What does
stress do to our cognition and the brain? Do brain training apps really work? These are
the kinds of questions we aim to answer in the class UN3211- From lab to life: how
cognition research affects everything you do.
The goal of the class is twofold: to understand 1) how laboratory research in cognitive
psychology and neuroscience can be applied to everyday life, and 2) how observations
and research from an applied setting can contribute to our understanding of cognitive
processes.
Given the applied and interdisciplinary nature of this content, this seminar course will
be heavily discussion-based. We will discuss primary literature on various topics of
cognition and bring it into the real world with applied research. Topics will include the
application of research on perception, attention, memory, learning, and metacognition
to real-world settings such as education, driving, health and well-being, law, media,
and society
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